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thing which will tend to keep these prices up to 

 a level which will leave him a profit on his 

 labor. 



Now, there are only two things which influ- 

 ence the price of apples. One of these is the 

 supply and the other is the demand. It may be 

 that in the future we will be able to get fruit- 

 growers of the apple sections educated to the 

 point where they will be willing to spend some 

 real money to stimulate the demand for their 

 products. The citrus-growers are doing this 

 very thing and they are getting results. But 

 at present the growers of apples are simply al- 

 lowing the law of supply and demand to have 

 its own way with them and they seem to be con- 

 tent to take whatever the market price may hap- 

 pen to be. 



In the same way it may be possible for the 

 growers to help out the situation as far as the 

 supply is concerned. This country has never 

 been over-supplied with good apples. The 

 trouble has been that when we had a big crop it 

 was usually concentrated in a few places where 

 the fruit was so plentiful as to be almost worth- 

 less and in remote sections it was so scarce as 

 to be almost priceless. We have never had in- 

 telligent distribution of this crop as we should 

 have. 



The citrus-growers of both California and 

 Florida have advanced far beyond the apple- 



